Govt acts to help farmers solve LITS hiccups

The LITS has apparently caused much inconvenience to livestock farmers, cattle speculators and butchery owners because the system has proved faulty.

Minister of Agriculture, Christiaan de Graaf, however, told Parliament on Wednesday that the problems farmers were facing were not far from being history. He said that previously his ministry used equipment that was in poor condition and that they have since found it necessary to improve it. "We have awarded a new three-year contract to a local company to replace the old equipment and upgrade the data," he said.